San Gennaro Festival, New York, NY
Artist
Louis Faurer
(American, 1916 - 2001)
Date1950; printed 1981
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/4 × 12 3/8 inches (20.96 × 31.45 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 inches (27.61 × 35.38 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 inches (27.61 × 35.38 cm)
Credit LineGift of Howard and Ellen Greenberg
Object number2014.58.18
SignedSigned and dated on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "© 1981 Louis Faurer"
InscribedTitled and dated on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "San Gennaro Festival / NY NY 1950"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "283 [circled]";
On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "PF109268";
On sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "37.39"
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DescriptionImage of group walking past a street vendor selling party hats, pinwheels, and stuffed animals.Exhibition HistoryRotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.
Louis Faurer is best known for an innovative body of personal photographs made on the streets of New York and Philadelphia. These are fresh and powerful images—technically daring and rich in their observations on the human condition. The San Gennaro Festival was an annual event in New York’s Little Italy, a weeklong celebration with parades and music. Faurer also enjoyed a successful career as a fashion photographer in the 1940s–50s. He worked for magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Life, and Look.
With Howard and Ellen Greenberg, Irvington, NY,
by 2014;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkis Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2014.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkis Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2014.
Copyright© Louis Faurer Estate, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery
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